David Ulin has lived in Los Angeles since 1991. From 1993-96 he was the book editor of the LA Weekly. He is a former Los Angeles Times critic and is an Assistant English Professor at the University of Southern California.
Jedediah Berry’s first novel, The Manual of Detection (The Penguin Press, 2009), was awarded the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers, as well as the Crawford Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. His stories have appeared in journals and anthologies including Conjunctions, Chicago Review, Best American Fantasy, and Best New American Voices. Invaluable assistance on the story appearing in this book was provided by Marty Thomas.
Dana Cameron’s first Anna Hoyt story, “Femme Sole” (in Boston Noir) was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity awards. Her story here, set in the 1740s, was inspired by research at Great Island and the village of Wellfleet, which was part of Eastham until 1763. Whether writing noir, historical fiction, urban fantasy, or traditional mystery, Cameron’s crime novels and short fiction draws on her expertise in New England archaeology. She lives in Beverly, Massachusetts.
Elyssa East is the author of the Boston Globe best-selling book, . A New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, Dogtown won the 2010 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for best work of nonfiction and was named a “Must-Read Book” by the Massachusetts Book Awards. East’s essays and reviews have been published in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Kansas City Star, and other publications nationwide.
Seth Greenland is a novelist and playwright. His novels include Shining City, The Bones, and the forthcoming The Angry Buddhist. His first play, Jungle Rot, was the recipient of the Kennedy Center/American Express Fund for New American Plays Award and the American Theatre Critics Association Award. His other produced plays include Jerusalem, Red Memories, and Girls in Movies. He first visited Cape Cod as a five-year-old.
Ben Greenman is an editor at the New Yorker and the author of several acclaimed books of fiction, including Superbad, Please Step Back, and What He’s Poised to Do. His most recent book is Celebrity Chekhov. He lives in Brooklyn.
William Hastings is a graduate student in the Solstice low-residency creative writing MFA program of Pine Manor College. While living on the Cape he worked as a golf course maintenance man, a special needs teacher, a middle and high school English teacher, and as a full-time waiter and prep cook. Besides Cape Cod, he has also lived in upstate New York, Colorado, Pennsylvania, the island of St. John, Denmark, Mexico, and Kuwait.
Fred G. Leebron is the program director of the MFA in creative writing at Queens University of Charlotte and a Professor of English at Gettysburg College. His novels have been published by Knopf, Doubleday, and Harcourt, and his stories appear frequently in magazines such as Tin House, TriQuarterly, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere, and have been selected for both Pushcart and O.Henry prize anthologies.
Adam Mansbach is the author of the #1 New York Times best seller Go the Fuck to Sleep, the novels Rage Is Back, Angry Black White Boy, and The End of the Jews, (winner of the California Book Award), and a dozen other books, most recently the best-selling A Field Guide to the Jewish People, cowritten with Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. Mansbach wrote the award-winning screenplay for the Netflix Original Barry, and his next feature film, Super High, starring Andy Samberg, Craig Robinson, and Common, is forthcoming from New Line. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, the Believer, the Guardian, and on National Public Radio's This American Life, The Moth, and All Things Considered.
Ricardo Cortés illustrated Go the Fuck to Sleep and its companions Go de Rass to Sleep and Seriously, Just Go to Sleep. He also illustrated Party: A Mystery by Jamaica Kincaid, and is the author/illustrator of It's Just a Plant: A Children's Story about Marijuana; A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola; and Sea Creatures from the Sky.
Owen Brozman illustrates comics, advertisements, album covers, magazines, murals, books, and more. In addition to You Have to Fucking Eat and Fuck, Now There Are Two of You, his work includes Kindness & Salt, a cookbook by the team behind Brooklyn's Buttermilk Channel, and the graphic novel Nature of the Beast. Brozman lives in Brooklyn.
Lizzie Skurnick is the author of Shelf Discovery, a memoir of teen reading. She writes on books and culture for the New York Times, the Daily Beast, Politics Daily, the Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, and many other publications. A former vice-president of the board of the National Book Critics Circle, she is also the author of a book of poetry, Check-In. She lives in Jersey City.
Paul Tremblay is the author of the weird-boiled novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland, and the short story collection In the Mean Time. His short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales and Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy, Volume 3. He has coedited a number of anthologies and can beat any crime writer in a game of one-on-one basketball. He still has no uvula and lives somewhere south of Boston with his wife and two kids.
Dave Zeltserman lives in the Boston area with his wife Judy; is a die-hard Patriots and Red Sox fan; and when he's not writing crime fiction, he spends his time working on his black belt in Kung Fu.
